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At least occasionally, crank the boat over to prevent engine seizure, belts hardening, get oil to the bearings, etc. I have used gas over 5 years old in my lawn tractor and lawnmowers, stinks but there is no catalytic converter to screw up.

No ice on Lake Erie willl have Lake Ontario warmer all over this season. Surface water temperatures from the Niagara River are high already. http://www.coastwatch.msu.edu/ontario/o11.html Look for the warmest waters.

There are 25,000 used boats on the market now. A welded aluminum boat about 18 foot with a 100 HP motor will serve you fine and you will leave enough money for gasoline.

If you want to fish Canadian waters, cross over the bridge with your boat. The hassle the Canadian and USA people put you through will at least cost you a lot of time, if not money.

When the lake water temperature hits 48 degrees F., the walleye spawn is done. The walleyes move out to 24 foot of water and turn on to feed heavily at 53 degrees.

We use 50# braid on spinning reels when fishing for Kings in the Alaskan Rivers. You need the power to stop long runs when there are a lot of fishermen around. It casts well using magnum Wiggle Warts, Hot and Tots, etc. You can run into 60# Kings there a lot.

http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/inde ... ery_a.html More on Lake Michigan situation. School teacher making more waves.

Put your thumb on the rivet, and if it spins freely, the rivet is no good.

http://www.buffalonews.com/sports/other ... 801381.ece

My Starcraft Mariner had a couple loose rivets and a bad floor. I pulled the floor and fixed the loose rivets that spun in their holes. I found larger rivets than the ones supplied and drilled the new holes to fit the rivets. We then set the hull aluminum to hold the rivets without spinning and then peened the new rivets. It turned out that we ended up putting 268 rivets in the old boat. A new floor and the old boat was good for several more years. Then the transom brace cracked and the engine was flopping around and we bought a new boat. An old product called Permatex is what they built aircraft with and it is a little soft so it does not become brittle could work on loose rivets.

If you have a voltmeter and the voltage rises to 14+ volts after you start the engine, the alternator is charging the battery.

Now we have bobcats running around on the southern tier, but I do not think they are as bad as the Amish boys who have no internet or TV to entertain themselves with.

The shotgun deer slug is inaccurate, so to reduce flying missiles in the woods we woke up to use a rifle. A lot less shooting going on now.

http://www.cleveland.com/outdoors/index ... he_pr.html

http://www.cleveland.com/outdoors/index ... kings.html

This is how you can introduce youngsters to real fishing they can enjoy. Great flick, guys, leave out the cigarette and you can go on TV.

I have used Wal Mart and NAPA batteries and found that they are easy to replace at any of their stores.

Drain the minnows in your wife's spaghetti colander. Put a handful in a plastic ziplock bag. A tablespoon of salt will do, seal them up in another quart sized bag with a few more and put them in the freezer. Grab a bag or two when you go out and put them in a six pack cooler with ice or cold blocks and you are good to go next July and August. You can not use them in the trout streams as they are outside the travel corridor that is exempted along the Great Lakes.

With the season closed here, Ohio has a great weekend. http://www.ohiogamefishing.com/communit ... p?t=196080

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/per ... z8#photo=9

http://www.myfishfinder.com/fishing_for ... #msg525685

Old guys need higher chairs to stand up from. Also higher toilet seats. Highback Bar stools are good.

http://www.flagshipmarine.com/selfcontained.html This may be more than you need. Someof the fellows on the Southern Rivers use a Recreation Vehicle Rooftop A/C from places like Camping World. The generator needed to power them up is large.

Sturgeon Point is where the lake narrows down to about nine miles across to Point Abino in Canada from sixty miles across in Ohio. The perch at this time of year are heading to the East end of the lake where the prevailing winds stack warmer waters up first and the perch can do their spawning thing, 42 to 48 degree water temperatures. The shale bottom extends out to about fifty four foot of water where the mud bottom begins. The mud bottom is what the perch prefer as it holds the critters that perch like to eat but they will move in shallow soon to spawn on the hard bottom. Use your graph on the mud bottom and look for perch within five foot of the bottom. If you find depressions on the bottom, perch like them as the currents are lessened and the perch do not have to struggle to maintain their position as food can drift by for them to grab. Use your graph to find these honey holes, and watch the other boats who may be pulling fish in over the gunwale. Please do not anchor too close as you will tangle lines and anchor lines and nasty situations arise when this happens. Have no less anchor line than three times the depth of water to anchor up. If you are not catching after fifteen minutes, pull the anchor and do more searching. Use a lightweight anchor and you will find you can do more searching since pulling heavy anchors sort of slows down the searching mode. Power up to your anchor till it is straight up and save your back and shoulders. Drifting and electric motor slow trolling works somedays also. For rigs I like a lightweight action rod with a small sinker on ten pound braid. I will use three #4 or #6 snelled hooks. The bottom hook is tied closely next to the sinker so as to have a minnow lying in the mud. This hook generally catches three times as many fish as the other two. They are directly tied to the braid with a palomar type knot to make a solid connection that really improves the sensitivity of your pole. Snaps and swivels have little gaps that do not conduct the light taps and crunching of your minnows by the perch. There are bait dealers on both sides of Route 5 that have minnows, Dave's in Derby and Weber's in Evans. I find I can do as well with frozen emeralds that we catch off Niagara Street in Buffalo and I freeze up a bucket full for use when the warm summer waters make bait hard to obtain. The taxeaters passed a law saying you can use three poles now, but the most successful guys use one and catch more fish and lose less bait. The oldtimers say to keep bait in the water and you keep the school of perch around your boat longer. You have to figure that out. Ice your fish in a cooler, you can clean them tomorrow.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/how-to-t ... minum.html